ghetocowboy used our news submit to tell us: "The Samsung BD player has a faulty noise reduction chip, Samsung will have that corrected in the future version of the BD player and they also promised a firmware fix to disable the noise reduction function on first generation players. This might contribute to the image quality. As of today, Panasonic and Pioneer BD players are not available to make a comparision. In this early comparision, HD-DVD is the winner. They also did comparision on other titles released in both formats (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Rumor Has It)."
Below, we have a snippet from the article from HighDefDigest, in which they take a look at Training Day.
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Both the Blu-ray and HD DVD are labeled on the back of their respective packages as being presented in 2.40:1, but that"s not the actuality. The Blu-ray suffers from a narrower aspect ratio, with some noticeable cropping on the sides of the picture. Though the total screen area of the bottom letterbox bar is the same on both discs, the total screen area on the top letterbox bar is visibly smaller on the Blu-ray." I noticed about three or four shots on the Blu-ray with more polarization on backgrounds or during fades/dissolves, which were either not there on the HD DVD, or greatly lessened. So score one for HD DVD"s VC1 compression codec over the MPEG2/AVC scheme used for Blu-ray -- at least until that format"s larger-capacity BD-50 dual layer discs become commercially viable." "Another difference between "Training Day" on the two formats is that the Blu-ray transfer looks darker. Right from the opening scene when Ethan Hawke wakes up in his bed, the HD DVD exhibits an obvious (if far from extreme) brighter look. However, black levels looked comparable -- the HD DVD did not seem washed out versus the Blu-ray. And while the Blu-ray image still looks detailed, shadow delineation does appear a bit less impressive in the darkest scenes." |
You can check out the other movie comparisons by visiting the HighDefDigest website.
Source: HighDefDigest
